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Ghanaian clergy wives constantly bargain for space.
In some cultures, menstruation and childbirth are treated as polluting, not life-giving. One Buddhist text’s interpretation of ‘Blood Pond Hell’ shows how far such beliefs go – and how women respond.
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Nearly three-quarters of tourism professors are white, a recent analysis found, and nearly half are white men.
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender lines.
Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
Billie Jean King’s 1973 match was about social change. The upcoming Sabalenka-Kyrgios event – with its rules tweaks and its participants’ questionable politics – may leave women’s tennis worse off.
Drawn from tantric traditions, Kundalini points to spiritual practices that go beyond traditionally understood concepts of the masculine and feminine.
The impostor phenomenon shows up with allyship too, new research shows. When people wrongly feel like they don’t have the skills to support their colleagues, the result can be a vicious cycle.
Work meetings can be sources of stress and dissatisfaction. But there are ways to improve them.
Gen Z’s ‘performative male’ trend is both mocked and embraced because it exposes deep cultural contradictions around what we expect of masculinity today.
Ghana’s former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, was a disrupter.
A recent survey suggests that young women in France, who are held back by gender stereotypes, may also be eschewing scientific fields because they prioritise subject passion more often than men.
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.
From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
Tighter federal borrowing limits may deepen inequities, especially for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Donald Trump increased his backing from women voters in his second presidential run.
With partisan advantage, clashing perceptions of reality and revolutionary readings of the Constitution all in play, the Supreme Court’s cases this year reach far into American politics and culture.
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